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THE WORLD IN WHICH WE OCCUR
Part of TWWWO Voice Archive
Recorded on Saturday 29 November 2014, 12–14 pm
SPEAKERS: Etienne Turpin, Nabil Ahmed, Rory Rowan
The prototype session was organised by the CAC as part of a likeminded series titled ‘Pharmacokinetics of an Element’ in November 2014 (in the context of one of the pilot exhibitions of the XII Baltic Triennial (http://cac.lt/en/exhibitions/past/15/7681), ‘Prototypes’). The event focused on the global climate change debate classifying our era and its wide ranging consequences.
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‘TWWWO Voice Archive’ is a growing archive of recorded phone conversations between the curators of The World in Which We Occur series – Margarida Mendes and Jennifer Teets – and an array of contemporary artists, scientists, philosophers, and scholars across disciplines. Developed for the XII Baltic Triennial, the archive continues to be accessible online and the series is intended to continue.
Embarking on modern day issues rooted in the history of materiality and flux as well as pertinent politically enmeshed scientific affairs shaping our world today, the series’ premise is one of interrogation and epistemic search. Loosely inspired by, and set in the legacy of hybrids growing out of, artist James Lee Byars’ 1969 project ‘World Question Centre’, ‘The World in Which We Occur’ underlines the necessity for inquiry over an assertiveness of responses. ‘Could you offer us a question that you feel is pertinent in regards to your own evolution of knowledge?’ asks Byars at the end of the line. ‘The World in Which We Occur’ unveils incentives or queries so as to generate further questions to build upon. It also aims to open up other areas of knowledge and speculation stemming from the core exercise of explicating one’s relationship within the current state of nature, in an era of erratic climatic behaviours.
The speakers recorded in the five sessions are Nabil Ahmed, Carolina Caycedo, Cormac Cullinan, Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, Fran Gallardo, Lori Gruen, Clive Hamilton, Stefan Helmreich, Pedro Neves Marques, Barbara Orland, Joana Rafael, Rory Rowan, Jenna Sutela, Paulo Tavares and Etienne Turpin.
Each conversation took place over the telephone but the sessions were public; the first 15 were made during public events at the CAC Cinema.
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ETIENNE TURPIN is a philosopher studying, designing, curating, and writing about complex urban systems, political economies of data and infrastructure, visual culture and aesthetics, and Southeast Asian colonial-scientific history. In Jakarta, he is the director of anexact office and the co-principal investigator of PetaJakarta.org. At the University of Wollongong, he is a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the SMART Infrastructure Facility and an Associate Research Fellow with the Australian Center for Cultural Environmental Research. He is also a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators’ Network of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, where he is co-editor of the intercalations: paginated exhibition series as part of Das Anthropozän-Projekt. His most recent book, co-edited with Heather Davis, is Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (Open Humanities Press. 2015).
NABIL AHMED is a researcher, writer and educator. His work explores the politics of environmental violence mainly in South and South East Asia. He has written for Third Text, Volume, Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth and for many other publications. More recently he has participated in the Taipei Biennale (2012), Cuenca Biennale (2014) and has exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and Shanghai Study Centre at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. He is co-founder and director of Call & Response, a sound arts organization based in London. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He teaches at the School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University. He is currently a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
RORY ROWAN is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich's Political Geography Research Unit, where his current research focuses on the geopolitical and philosophical dimensions of the Anthropocene and earth systems governance. His work crosses the fields of geography, political theory, Continental philosophy and the environmental humanities. He has contributed writing on politics, philosophy, art and cultural criticism to a number of publications including e-Flux, Mute, Political Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Society & Space and he is co-author with Claudio Minca of the recently published On Schmitt and Space, which builds on his broader work on the spatial thought of the influential but controversial political and legal thinker Carl Schmitt. He also works collaboratively with artists and his writing has appeared in exhibitions in London, Milan, New York, Porto and São Paulo as well as part of the online platform Opening Times Art Commission. He blogs at gapingearth.com and geocritique.org
JENNIFER TEETS is a curator, writer, and researcher. Recent exhibitions include This place you see has no size at all, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2009); A clock that runs on mud, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, (2011); The world is bound in secret knots, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, (2012); Vinimos a soñar: France Fiction, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2012); Boustrophedonic procession, (w/ Darius Mikšys) Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2012/2013); Elusive Earths, Etablissement d en face Projects, Brussels (2014); Tierras Esquivas II, FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá (2014). She recently organized the three part series titled 'Pharmacokinetics of an Element' at CAC, Vilnius. Teets holds a Master in Experimentation in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po, Paris. From 2003-2007, she spearheaded the contemporary art program at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City, the former home/studio of Mexican Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, which today exists as one of the most pivotal contemporary art museums in Mexico City. Her personal writing intersects science studies, philosophy, and ficto-critique, and performs as an interrogative springboard for her curatorial practice. She has written extensively on art and curating in international art magazines and other publications. She lives and works in Paris.
MARGARIDA MENDES has directed the project space The Barber Shop in Lisbon, where she hosts a programme of seminars and residencies dedicated to artistic and philosophical research, since 2009. Her research, which focus on the overlap between cybernetics, philosophy, sciences and experimental film, explores the dynamic transformations of materialism and their impact on societal structures and cultural production. She has curated projects in various European institutions, among them Flat Time House, CAC Vilnius, KIM? Contemporary Art Center, Spike Island Centre of Contemporary Art & Design, Museu de Serralves. Margarida holds an MA in Aural and Visual Culture from Goldsmiths College, London and in 2013 she was a guest curator at Synapse Curatorial Research Group included in the 'Anthropocene Project' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. She is Associate Curator of the 11th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
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Session 1: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession1
Session 2: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession2
Session 3: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession3
Session 4: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession4
Part of TWWWO Voice Archive
Recorded on Saturday 29 November 2014, 12–14 pm
SPEAKERS: Etienne Turpin, Nabil Ahmed, Rory Rowan
The prototype session was organised by the CAC as part of a likeminded series titled ‘Pharmacokinetics of an Element’ in November 2014 (in the context of one of the pilot exhibitions of the XII Baltic Triennial (http://cac.lt/en/exhibitions/past/15/7681), ‘Prototypes’). The event focused on the global climate change debate classifying our era and its wide ranging consequences.
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‘TWWWO Voice Archive’ is a growing archive of recorded phone conversations between the curators of The World in Which We Occur series – Margarida Mendes and Jennifer Teets – and an array of contemporary artists, scientists, philosophers, and scholars across disciplines. Developed for the XII Baltic Triennial, the archive continues to be accessible online and the series is intended to continue.
Embarking on modern day issues rooted in the history of materiality and flux as well as pertinent politically enmeshed scientific affairs shaping our world today, the series’ premise is one of interrogation and epistemic search. Loosely inspired by, and set in the legacy of hybrids growing out of, artist James Lee Byars’ 1969 project ‘World Question Centre’, ‘The World in Which We Occur’ underlines the necessity for inquiry over an assertiveness of responses. ‘Could you offer us a question that you feel is pertinent in regards to your own evolution of knowledge?’ asks Byars at the end of the line. ‘The World in Which We Occur’ unveils incentives or queries so as to generate further questions to build upon. It also aims to open up other areas of knowledge and speculation stemming from the core exercise of explicating one’s relationship within the current state of nature, in an era of erratic climatic behaviours.
The speakers recorded in the five sessions are Nabil Ahmed, Carolina Caycedo, Cormac Cullinan, Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, Fran Gallardo, Lori Gruen, Clive Hamilton, Stefan Helmreich, Pedro Neves Marques, Barbara Orland, Joana Rafael, Rory Rowan, Jenna Sutela, Paulo Tavares and Etienne Turpin.
Each conversation took place over the telephone but the sessions were public; the first 15 were made during public events at the CAC Cinema.
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ETIENNE TURPIN is a philosopher studying, designing, curating, and writing about complex urban systems, political economies of data and infrastructure, visual culture and aesthetics, and Southeast Asian colonial-scientific history. In Jakarta, he is the director of anexact office and the co-principal investigator of PetaJakarta.org. At the University of Wollongong, he is a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the SMART Infrastructure Facility and an Associate Research Fellow with the Australian Center for Cultural Environmental Research. He is also a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators’ Network of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, where he is co-editor of the intercalations: paginated exhibition series as part of Das Anthropozän-Projekt. His most recent book, co-edited with Heather Davis, is Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (Open Humanities Press. 2015).
NABIL AHMED is a researcher, writer and educator. His work explores the politics of environmental violence mainly in South and South East Asia. He has written for Third Text, Volume, Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth and for many other publications. More recently he has participated in the Taipei Biennale (2012), Cuenca Biennale (2014) and has exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and Shanghai Study Centre at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. He is co-founder and director of Call & Response, a sound arts organization based in London. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He teaches at the School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University. He is currently a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
RORY ROWAN is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich's Political Geography Research Unit, where his current research focuses on the geopolitical and philosophical dimensions of the Anthropocene and earth systems governance. His work crosses the fields of geography, political theory, Continental philosophy and the environmental humanities. He has contributed writing on politics, philosophy, art and cultural criticism to a number of publications including e-Flux, Mute, Political Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Society & Space and he is co-author with Claudio Minca of the recently published On Schmitt and Space, which builds on his broader work on the spatial thought of the influential but controversial political and legal thinker Carl Schmitt. He also works collaboratively with artists and his writing has appeared in exhibitions in London, Milan, New York, Porto and São Paulo as well as part of the online platform Opening Times Art Commission. He blogs at gapingearth.com and geocritique.org
JENNIFER TEETS is a curator, writer, and researcher. Recent exhibitions include This place you see has no size at all, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2009); A clock that runs on mud, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, (2011); The world is bound in secret knots, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, (2012); Vinimos a soñar: France Fiction, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2012); Boustrophedonic procession, (w/ Darius Mikšys) Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2012/2013); Elusive Earths, Etablissement d en face Projects, Brussels (2014); Tierras Esquivas II, FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá (2014). She recently organized the three part series titled 'Pharmacokinetics of an Element' at CAC, Vilnius. Teets holds a Master in Experimentation in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po, Paris. From 2003-2007, she spearheaded the contemporary art program at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City, the former home/studio of Mexican Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, which today exists as one of the most pivotal contemporary art museums in Mexico City. Her personal writing intersects science studies, philosophy, and ficto-critique, and performs as an interrogative springboard for her curatorial practice. She has written extensively on art and curating in international art magazines and other publications. She lives and works in Paris.
MARGARIDA MENDES has directed the project space The Barber Shop in Lisbon, where she hosts a programme of seminars and residencies dedicated to artistic and philosophical research, since 2009. Her research, which focus on the overlap between cybernetics, philosophy, sciences and experimental film, explores the dynamic transformations of materialism and their impact on societal structures and cultural production. She has curated projects in various European institutions, among them Flat Time House, CAC Vilnius, KIM? Contemporary Art Center, Spike Island Centre of Contemporary Art & Design, Museu de Serralves. Margarida holds an MA in Aural and Visual Culture from Goldsmiths College, London and in 2013 she was a guest curator at Synapse Curatorial Research Group included in the 'Anthropocene Project' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. She is Associate Curator of the 11th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
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Session 1: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession1
Session 2: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession2
Session 3: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession3
Session 4: https://archive.org/details/TWWWOsession4
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